You already know the thing.
The work is saying it so it lands.

Private coaching and small-group courses for people whose work depends on being understood — in the room, on the stage, in the conversation nobody wants to start.

People coached since 2016, one at a time.

Years running the same four-week format, refined every cohort.

Most communication advice is about you. This is about the person listening.

You can be the most prepared person in the room and still lose it. Not because you lacked the argument, but because you delivered it to the version of the room you rehearsed for, instead of the one in front of you.

The work here is to notice what is actually happening while it happens, and to have something better than instinct to reach for.

What people come here for

Speaking in public

Keynotes, all-hands, panels, conference talks. Structure first, delivery second, nerves last.

The hard conversation

Feedback, refusal, renegotiation. How to say the true thing without detonating the relationship.

Leading without authority

Getting a decision through an organisation that has not asked for your opinion.

How the work runs

Four weeks, then a decision about whether to keep going. No packages you have to buy your way out of.

A call, not a pitch

Forty-five minutes. You describe the situation; I tell you honestly whether coaching is the right tool for it.

One thing at a time

We pick the single change with the most leverage and work it until it holds under pressure.

Rehearse against resistance

You practise on the real material, with me playing the difficult part of the room.

Take it into the room

You run it live, we debrief what actually happened, and adjust.

Courses running now

Small cohorts, live sessions, capped so everyone speaks.

Intermediate

Leading Without the Title

Influence when you have no authority: alignment, sequencing, and knowing what to spend.

Format: 6 weeks, live
Price: $690

Advanced

Talks That Travel

Build one keynote worth repeating. Structure, rehearsal, and the edit that makes it land.

Format: 8 weeks, live
Price: $1,240

Foundations

Say the Hard Thing

A short, blunt course on difficult conversations — the feedback, the no, the renegotiation.

Format: 4 weeks, self-paced
Price: $420

I stopped rehearsing and started deciding what the room needed. Two promotions later, that is still the skill I use most.

Dana Okonkwo

VP Product, Kestrel Health

From the journal

The pause is the technique

September 17, 2026Silas1 min read

Most people treat silence as a gap to be filled. In a hard conversation it is the only tool that works in both directions: it gives…

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